BIOL 1F26 Lecture 3: bio lec 3
9 Jul 2016
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Focus will be on resource utilization, ow of energy, and levels of organisms within an ecosystem. Similar to biochemical cycles, small imbalances in ecosystems cause ripple effects felt on a large scale. Continuation of looking at imbalance to cycles and the resulting environmental change(s) This week we are more focused on the environment and ecosystem balance; changing a biochemical cycle impacts ecosystems. When atp is used by energy it gets converted to adp. We have a wide range of inputs into most metabolisms. 6co2 (carbon dioxide) + 6h20 (water) > (light) c6h12o6 (sugar) + 6o2 (oxygen) Happens in all plants and some bacteria (photosynthetic bacteria) Sunday, may 29, 2016: plants feed the next level, and so on until the highest level. Each feeding level in the food chain is formally known as a trophic level. Autotrophs or primary producers: produce energy themselves (capacity to perform photosynthesis, plants, algae, etc, main or primary producer of energy in an ecosystem.
